Sphinx#
Summary#
Nietzsche invokes the Sphinx as a symbol of the philosophical riddle posed by the Will to Truth. The Sphinx teaches us to ask questions ourselves, leading to the fundamental inquiry: who is truly the questioner and who the riddle-poser in the pursuit of truth? This image frames the opening of Beyond Good and Evil, suggesting that the problem of truth’s value is itself a dangerous enigma that philosophers have only begun to confront.